The Northern Powerhouse is already home to many centres of scientific excellence. We have invested millions in the new Graphene Institute to turn a great idea invented in Manchester into the businesses of the future, and backed the Sir Henry Royce Institute with £235 million worth of funding, building on the North’s strengths in advanced materials research and innovation.

What we are doing

17 enterprise zones

By April 2017 there will be 17 enterprise zone supporting businesses across the North. Existing enterprise zones across the North have already attracted £1.3 billion of private sector investment (£1 million per day), supported nearly 200 different businesses and helped attract nearly 9,000 jobs since 2012.